The worst bullies: ‘My friends called me Ugly Betty’

Nov 17, 2017

BBC – Judith Burns

“With Anti-Bullying week under way, newly-published research identifies friendship bullying as more harmful than physical, verbal or cyber-bullying. The study, by University of Hertfordshire researchers and published by the Journal of School Health, describes it as a particular form of bullying which causes harm to the victim through “the systematic manipulation and destruction of their peer relationships and social status” .”(more)